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World Service,12 Sep 1994,13 mins

Dvorak in New York

Composers' Journeys

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At the invitation of Jeannette Thurber, Antonín Dvořák was invited to become the director of the National Conservatory of Music. What characterised his composition once he arrived in New York in 1892?

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